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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wichita, KS

June 29, 2014Barton County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 29, 2014, 4:40 AM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 2014, 4:40 AM CDT (09:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2014, 5:15 AM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

County Barton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 117 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 943 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 29, 3:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 3:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 11:49 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 28, 11:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 11:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 12:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 2:19 AM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
219 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1015 PM     FLASH FLOOD      5 SE LONGTON            37.33N 96.02W
06/28/2014                   ELK                KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            SHERIFF REPORTS WATER OVER HIGHWAY 160 NEAR OAK VALLEY.

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 4:40 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
440 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 2014

KSZ047-291015-
BARTON-
440 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  CENTRAL BARTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 515 AM CDT

* AT 438 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ALBERT...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF GREAT BEND...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GREAT BEND...HOISINGTON AND GREAT BEND AIRPORT.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORM INTENSIFIES AND
BECOMES SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 3857 9903 3853 9869 3828 9869 3835 9903
TIME...MOT...LOC 0940Z 283DEG 29KT 3844 9895

LAWSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 7:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Elk	3 hr
Jun 28, 7:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery	29 min
Jun 28, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	47 min
Jun 28, 8:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Montgomery, Wilson	4 hr
Jun 28, 8:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	50 min
Jun 28, 9:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery	3 hr
Jun 28, 9:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	37 min
Jun 28, 10:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Labette	4 hr
Jun 28, 10:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Elk	9 hr
Jun 28, 10:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	35 min
Jun 28, 11:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	29 min
Jun 28, 11:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	36 min
Jun 28, 11:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	47 min
Jun 28, 11:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery	9 hr
Jun 29, 12:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	30 min
Jun 29, 6:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Barton	5 hr
Jun 29, 6:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	31 min
Jun 29, 6:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	24 min
Jun 29, 7:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	43 min
Jun 29, 7:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	33 min
Jun 29, 8:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	37 min
Jun 29, 9:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	61 min
Jun 29, 9:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Marion	60 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.